Andrew Garfield the silver screen’s newest Spider-Man graces the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly, which also features interviews with Garfield, who stars in Sony’s Spidey reboot along with Emma Stone who plays Gwen Stacy, and director Marc Webb.  Webb promises to deliver a grittier and “more character-driven webslinger in The Amazing Spider-Man, which will debut on July 3, 2012. 

The new issue also provides a look at  the movie's villain played by Rhys Ifans, who as Doctor Curt Connors is transformed into the Lizard after an experiment goes horribly wrong when he injects lizard serum into his body in an attempt to regenerate his arm.

Garfield admits to dressing up as Spider-Man as a kid and loving the Spider-Man comics and cartoons, saying “I related to Peter Parker so much because I felt like someone else inside.”

{IMAGE_4}Webb, who directed the innovative romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer in 2009 (and it’s arguably harder to break free of genre conventions in a romcom than it is in a superhero film), sums up The Amazing Spider-Man movie this way: “Ultimately it’s about a kid who grows up looking for his father, and finds himself. And that’s a Spider-Man story we haven’t seen before.”

The new issue of EW, which also includes articles on the new season of The Walking Dead, the Total Recall remake, Terra Nova, and Spartacus, goes on sale on Friday, July 15th.